Notes: supported Henry Tudor and was knighted by him at Bosworth as was Rhys ap Thomas. Sir Edmund died heavily in debt in 1513 while fighting in France. He was buried at Calais. His heirs were unable to keep up the mortgage payments and Carew castle was lost. It eventually became a crown possession, and was regained by the Carews about 100 years later.

Edmund Carew was born in 1464.1 He was the son of John Carew and Margaret Dinham.2

He was an ancestor of the Carews of Mohun's Ottery (extinct by 1575), Carews of Bickleigh Castle (male line expired 1681) and George Carew, 1st and last Earl of Totnes (extinct 1629).1 He was a great-grandfather of Sir Walter Ralegh.1 During his minority Carew Castle was first mortgaged to then foreclosed on by Rhys ap Thomas.1

George Carew (1497/8–1583) was an English churchman who became Dean of Exeter.

He was the third son of Sir Edmund Carew. He graduated B.A. at Broadgates Hall, Oxford in 1522.

Carew was archdeacon of Totnes from 1534 to 1549, becoming canon of Exeter in 1535 and precentor of Exeter in 1549, and was archdeacon of Exeter from 1556 to 1569. He was dean of Bristol from 5 November 1552, but he was ejected in 1553 under Mary I. He resumed the post on the accession of Elizabeth I, and filled it until 1571. He was also dean of Christ Church, Oxford from 1559 to 1661, dean and canon of Windsor from 1560 to 1577 and dean of Exeter in 1571 to 1583. [1]

He died on 1 June 1583, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.[1]

He married Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harvey. George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes was a younger son.[1]

Supported Henry Tudor and was knighted by him at Bosworth as was Rhys ap Thomas. Sir Edmund died heavily in debt in 1513 while fighting in France. He was buried at Calais. His heirs were unable to keep up the mortgage payments and Carew castle was lost. It eventually became a crown possession, and was regained by the Carews about 100 years later.

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He was a great-grandfather of Sir Walter Ralegh. He was an ancestor of the Carews of Mohun's Ottery (extinct by 1575), Carews of Bickleigh Castle (male line expired 1681) and George Carew, 1st and last Earl of Totnes (extinct 1629). During his minority Carew Castle was first mortgaged to then foreclosed on by Rhys ap Thomas.